I checked the manpage for patchadd and there are no return codes listed. Gestion des patch sous solaris bienvenue sur le site. Improvements to solaris 10 recommended and sun alert patch. Without solaris live upgrade, it is usually necessary to boot the system in singleuser mode and then upgrade the os or install patches using the patchadd command.
I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. Oct 12, 2017 solaris patchadd patchadd return codes patchadd exit codes patchadd failure codes solaris 10 patchadd. Turns off validation against other required or incompatible patches. The following code works well in linux centos 7 in my case, but fails on solaris 10.
I am reproducing the original return code here for convinience. The patchadd command can be used to find out which patches are currently installed on the system. During the patch quite a few patches failed with return code 2,8, or 5. Checking patches that you specified for installation. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. The post describes the creation of a branded zone on solaris 10 global zone. Jan 28, 2011 what follows are some notes on a sample configuration setting up raid and zfs on a pair of 80gb disks. Check and disable weak ssh cyphers and hmac algorithms. The patch that is being installed depends on another patch which. So effectively, pdo is already performing the enhancement you are suggesting.
Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. If you are running the solaris 10 initial 305 release, you can install the following patch to enable the use of commands that accept the r option for creation of an alternate root path. Patchadd dry run lildude patchadd dryrun 20070216t17. Solaris 8, 9 patchadd script return codes or solaris 10 w t option. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. If we install from scratch, it is called initial installation, or we can upgrade solaris 7 or higher version tosolaris 10. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. You can prevent human error because the operations to select. I am getting the following errors for every service.
Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be able to download patches and patch revisions which are released after this date. Attempt to apply a patch thats already been applied. Ive got the emailing part down, what im missing though is the part about the exit codes. May 19, 2009 in fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. Solaris patchadd return codes information for everyone.
Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8. On a system with zones5 installed, a return code of 0. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. Solaris patching guide file system system software scribd. The most commonly are the return codes return code 2, return code 8, return code 25, return code 35.
Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Viewing solaris patches with patchadd prefetch technologies. Viewing solaris patches with patchadd the solaris patchadd utility is well known for being able to apply a patch to a system, but few people know that it has a nifty p print installed patches option to print the list of installed patches. I have compiled a list of return codes from the patchadd command for both solaris 9 and solaris 10, and it has come in very handy over the ages. In solaris 10, patchadd is no longer a script and the exit codes have changed, but you still have a t option to use the solaris 9 codes, i guess for those who have scripted patchadd and rely on the old codes. Alternatively, solaris live upgrade patches an inactive copy of the boot environment, so the system can continue in production until it is convenient to activate the patched boot. In the annals of nerddom, i suppose its not all that, but nonetheless its sweet like a georgia peach. Add verbose error messages instead of exit codes for patchadd failures. The man page says using the t flag maintains the patchadd return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. Maintains the patchadd return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Typically, when applying the recommended patch bundle, the system will start to apply a patch for a driver that you dont have in the system example, for a gigabit ethernet card and youve never installed one, so the patch program will exit with one of these codes indicating this patch has a prerequisite you didnt meet. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. This sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. So as 12001114 obsoletes 122660 10 due to how splitgate works we also need to ensure that 122660 10 is installed, as otherwise patchadd will fail. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail veritas services and. Now, the codes didnt change much over the years up until solaris 10, when patchadd. Now, the codes didnt change much over the years up until solaris 10. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Patchadd on solaris 10 and later has an undocumented and little known a flag that allows you to perform a dry run to see if a patch would install. Jan 28, 2011 the aim here is to be able to take a critical resource offline to perform maintenance. The most common solaris exit codes you will see is 2 or 8, but have you ever. Anyone know what these mean, or where i can find this information.
This is a page dedicated to detailing the codes returned by the solaris command patchadd, used for applying patches to the solaris os. These are the return codes that indicate the cause of the failure to install the patch specified and are useful as starting point the solution of problems. I just patched a new install of solaris 8 on a sparc box. What follows are some notes on a sample configuration setting up raid and zfs on a pair of 80gb disks. Now, the codes didnt change much over the years up until solaris 10, when patchadd went from a script to a binary, and then the first 33 or so stayed the same and they just added a few more at the end. The version of sunssh running on the remote host has an information disclosure vulnerability. Solaris 10 cli for adding international lang support. In solaris 9 and i suspect any prior versions with patchadd, although i try not to make assumptions when it comes to sun, usrsbin patchadd is a very large direct korn shell script.
Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Up till solaris 9, the patchadd was a shell script in usrsbin, and all the return codes are listed in the beginning of the script. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. We are using veritas mirroring instead of emcs srdf to be more friendly to sun cluster. The only reliable exit codes are 0 and 0 see the patchadd1m man page and youll find the exit codes very rarely actually match this list unless.
Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Patchadd solaris patchadd returnexit codes the following exit codes will return in a failure of patchadd command. Return code of 2 indicates that the patch you are trying to install is already being applied. Note that, ordinarily, a critical resource being offlined would cause the failover of a service group. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. Find answers to does the patchadd command work with zip files solaris 10 from the expert community at experts exchange. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Patches fails with unhandled subprocess exit status 5 exit n branch patch fails with below errors. Does the patchadd command work with zip files solaris 10. Find answers to does the patchadd command work with zip files solaris 10 from the expert community at experts exchange does the patchadd command work with zip files solaris 10 solutions experts exchange. The patch program is a script, you can read the script to find out. I am in a process to send the mail automatically with an attachment to bulk users.
I have disabledenabled nrpe service on solaris 10 host and have stopped and started nagios on server. With solaris 10 usrsbin patchadd now is an elf executable and it has different return codes. Also, the manpage lists a t option that maintains the patchadd return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Return code of 126 is out of bounds solaris 10 sparc. But if the system is booted from solaris 10 10 08 or later media, it is ok to run the following. Patch management still needs a lot of work in solaris. The most common solaris exit codes you will see is 2 or 8, but have you ever had a different exit code and wondered what it means. Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be able to. Oracle solaris 11 overview and design guide fujitsu. Where would i find the defined return codes for s10 patchadd. There can be different way in which we may need to install solaris 10. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris. More fault codes have been added to the return code.
May 01, 2009 apache2 australia bfu blogs competition dhcp dtrace dtrace php grub hostname inetadm ipsec jumpstart ldd nis nodename opencsw opensolaris oracle pam patches php pid provider pkgget pxe raidz s8ma smf solaris solaris 8 solaris 10 solaris books solaris express solaris install solaris os solaris zones ssh sun cluster sun microsystems truss uname. These are patches which include only firmware, and make no system code changes. Solaris patchadd patchadd return codes patchadd exit codes patchadd failure codes solaris 10 patchadd. With solaris 10 usrsbinpatchadd now is an elf executable and it has different return codes.
On a system with zones5 installed, a return code of 0 indicates success. Hand edit networking files on solaris x86 solaris patch return codes patchadd post navigation solaris 10 has gone into extended support on february 1st 2018. It is advised that you use the latest solaris update image available at the time as the boot image. I used solaris 10 0606, this short howto for the raid information with quite a few modifications for solaris 10, and lots of man page reading.
Determining the completeness of patching the kernel revision status on dozens of. For example, a patch might be required to fix a problem with a system command or address a security issue. A patch is a collection of files intended to update or fix problems with installed software. This list may not be the most current so check with oracle or the patchadd man pages for the most current list. Basically, what i want is to examine the exit code after rman completes, and if the exit code isnt 0, i want it to send an email indicating the failure. Patch remediation fails for solaris bmc communities. In solaris, how to check the number of users currently logged in. Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. But with solaris 10, patchadd is a elf executable, it has different return code, but the flag t will make it use the older return code. A design flaw in the ssh specification could allow a maninthemiddle attacker to recover up to 32 bits of plaintext from an ssh. Mar 23, 2006 in solaris 10, patchadd is no longer a script and the exit codes have changed, but you still have a t option to use the solaris 9 codes, i guess for those who have scripted patchadd and rely on the old codes.
Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. I expect to follow this up with more notes on solaris in the following weeks. I just posted some new goodness for all of the solaris admins out there. Live upgrade avoids many of the problems encountered when patchinga live solaris 10 boot environment as live upgrade modifies aninactive boot environment, rather than the live boot environment. Below is a list of patchadd return codes from oracle. A patch with the same base code but higher revision number is already installed. Managing solaris patches by using the patchadd command task. All return codes were listed in the comment section at the beginning. Patchrelated commands patchadd, patchrm, showrev, etc. Solaris patchadd return codes here is a nice list of the return codes given by patchadd when patching solaris systems. The prepatch script had a return code other than 0. I have to wonder why solaris 10 turned it into a binary front end unfortunately i dont have a solaris 10 machine to poke at it.
Vxvm increasing size of a volume 2010 4 november 3 september 1 about me. Oct 19, 20 maintains the patchrm return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. Installing a patch cluster using solaris live upgrade on x86 how to create a solaris 10 x86 recovery dvd setting up mpxio on solaris 10 what do all those services do. Back in patchadd, so that the reason for the non install will be readily identifiable. The technology is similar to jumpstart in solaris 10.
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